Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

This slender 150 page coming-of-age novella was first published in 1967 and reprinted several times. Now, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, it is available as an ebook. TIME MAGAZINE described it as a "gentle first novel told with a fine ear for adolescent patois," and National Book Award winning...

The continuation of the previous volume; picks up where Volume#3 of "Celestial/Terrestrial Warriors" left off and the aftermath of "Ed's Mono-myth" trilogy...The sequel to the 'Celestial/Terrestrial Warriors' series and picking up where 'Planet Empyrean' left off. It's been five...

In the all-white town of Sardis, Alabama, during the civil rights era, Ruth Clayton has a dangerous secret to keep. She is pregnant—and the baby is half black. Upon her child's birth, her brother drives her from Sardis with intentions to do away with her son. But he has a change of heart, and decides...

Teenager Francie Lanoo is smitten with two things in life: beautiful shoes and heartthrob Berkeley Mills, who she knows is definitely out of her league. After months of ogling him, she finally gains the confidence to befriend him. And when he, out-of-the-blue, asks what her ideal shoe would look like,...

A near-death experience in a car with her Mother; running from tear gas at a Vietnam War rally hand-in-hand with her Pop; a year in India learning side-by-side the country's 'untouchables;' the highs and lows of living on a rural Pennsylvania commune…and all before Fiona Sprechelbach's thirteenth...

All of us find ourselves compromised by circumstances beyond our control. Young Lyle Ortiz finds himself and his sisters in a situation well beyond the resources of a fourteen year old much less a teen without a support system that he can access with the reasonable expectation of an acceptable outcome....

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted...

H. S. Cross returns to “a school as nuanced and secretive as J. K. Rowling’s Hogwarts” (The Rumpus) in Grievous, the sequel to her coming-of-age novel Wilberforce. St. Stephen’s Academy, Yorkshire, 1931. A world unto itself, populated by boys reveling in life’s first big mistakes...

France 1908. As every year Count Horace de Dragoncourt and his wife and children leave Paris to spend the summer months at Château Drakòn in the Departement of Roye. The four siblings, Miss Elle in particular, run wild and give free rein to their boredom in the countryside. Until the socially-awkward...

John lives a simple life in the beach condo his parents left him, with plenty of money to do whatever he wants. The problem is, John doesn't know what he wants and his life is going nowhere. His two best friends aren't helping matters. Stanley is an alcoholic who sleeps in his bathtub and Mike has...

Forty Pounds of Flesh will leave you gasping as the repercussions of honesty—or deception—in romance are pushed to their flashpoints. Damon was born of rape, a bastard whose adoptive father hanged himself after learning he’d been duped. The solace Damon later finds in murder-mystery movies inspires...

From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award–winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age...

I’m eighteen. A virgin. And trapped in this billionaire’s castle! All I wanted to be was an actress. But now the only thing I’m playing is his game. Cameron Scott. Gorgeous. Dark. Intimidating. A movie executive willing to grant my wildest dreams. Who would ever have known he was...

First published in 1960, The Coming of Fabrizze has been called by the New York Herald Tribune a “comic folklore festival about an Italian American colony in Cleveland, Ohio, back in the 1920s when all the land was a little slaphappy—and no one more so than these transplanted countrymen of the...